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“a game that will truly test your mettle as a gamer”
75/100 - GameZone

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War of the Roses: Kingmaker is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet - the house of Lancaster (the reds) and the house of York (the whites) – fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray.

War of the Roses: Kingmaker arms players with a wide variety of arsenal and armor from the Knights Hospitaller, Gallowglass Mercenary, Winter Has Arrived, and Outside the Law updates. Three new maps and two additional gameplay modes, including the Assault Mode released specifically for this version of the multiplayer action title are also included. War of the Roses: Kingmaker will separate the nobles from the rabble and put knights on the fast-track to glory, ready to fight and die for York or Lancaster – and go down in history as true heroes.

Key Features:

Choose Your Gear – Make your selection from over 30 authentic weapons across 10 weapon categories with your choice of blade type and metal type. More than a dozen customizable helmets and various armor types to choose from. Even create your own coat of arms with near limitless combinations as you choose your division, ordinary, charge, and crest.

Design Your Coat of Arms – Show your allegiance, or just design something cool in the extensive Coat of Arms editor with millions of possible combinations.

Groundbreaking Mounted Gameplay - Melee combat will never be the same, mount up and experience new tactical and visceral thrills.

Train to be the Ultimate Knight - Experience a deep leveling system as you rise through the ranks, gain weapons, gear, and much more.

Expand the Mass Devastation – Take the up to 64 player competition to the next level on two additional modes, Pitched Battle & Assault! These bring the grand scale of war to the next level and challenge the most harden Knights!

Almost all players left are regulars and highly experienced, usually bunched up on one or two servers with 20 - 30 players. Combat is frustrating and imbalanced with clothed peasants wielding pitchforks that insta kill knights in full plate. Janky melee where everyone is constantly running in circles to keep their top speeds for bonus damage and to dodge incoming swings, this looks really silly and isn't very immersive.

You can barely shoot anything moving with a ranged weapon, as your projectile is shot after a noticeable delay dependent on the games/servers mood, add in the fact that everyone is running in circles makes it nearly impossible to lead your shots.

Usually while running in circles you will want to position yourself in such a way, that when your fully charged attack is released your swing begins inside or right before your target, achieving maximum damage potential without delay, giving even less or no time for a parry. Noone will explain this to you. I guess I should also mention that the community is childish and unfriendly. There seem to be a couple of map exploits as well, with snipers shooting from inside buildings. This all adds up to a genuine old school experience, the bad kind.

The developers have also discontinued support, which is the most frustrating issue, the potential is still there and they could really turn things around, but just gave up on it. It's not a bad game, it just needs someone to care about it. All those realistic armor hitboxes and weapon modifications mean nothing when it comes to the imbalance and cheapness in combat. Any "polish" is superficial at best.

So if you feel like sacrificing yourself for the enjoyment of everyone still playing and absolutely love hardcore metagaming, à la a slow jedi knight 2/academy without force powers or rancors, then buy this game now, you masochist.